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Amr_Ali
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May 04, 2023

server SSL Profile setting

In the Server SSL profile we have under The Server Authentication section of the Server SSL profile ( server certificate ) and the default action is ignore, my question here is what is mean  ignore,...
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AlanMoen
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It means that the LTM client will not check the validity of the server cert, just that it's there. It won't break things if the cert expires, for example.

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Amr_Ali
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May 04, 2023

Do you mean her when the LTM acts as a client during the connection between it and the back-end web server, it accepts any certificate sent from the server even if expired

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    AlanMoen
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    May 04, 2023

    Yes. I found this by accident when one of my AD teams let their server certs expire but the LTM kept chugging along. I'm kinda surprised it's the default setting and I've changed that in my environment for security reasons.